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Hace 1 día · Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary. In the latter post, which he held from 1960 to 1963, he supported United States resolve in the Cuban Missile Crisis and in August 1963 ...
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Hace 4 días · Cherwell sat down with Lord Patton to discuss a decline in higher education funding; fears over foreign influence; and why Oxford is the UK's best.
Hace 3 días · The election was a race between the aristocratic Douglas-Home and Labour leader Harold Wilson, a young politician who was buzzing with ideas such as the need to harness the “white heat of technology” to modernize the ailing British economy.
Hace 3 días · Douglas-Home had only become prime minister the year before, when his predecessor Harold Macmillan stepped down following a huge reversal in fortune. The buoyant economy had faltered, and Macmillan had been snubbed by French President Charles de Gaulle in his application for Britain to join the recently formed European Economic Community.
Hace 3 días · In the aftermath of the crisis, Sir Anthony Eden was replaced as prime minister by Harold Macmillan, who had previously served as minister of defence and chancellor of the exchequer. The Suez fiasco reinforced Macmillan's determination to reduce the size and expense of Britain’s Armed Forces and to abolish conscription by ending ...
Hace 3 días · Under the leadership of Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home, the Conservative Party came to accept the key tenets of the “postwar consensus” with Labour—that is, it recognized the state’s responsibility for maintaining full employment and endorsed the use of techniques of economic-demand ...
Hace 5 días · In October 1957, at the close of bilateral talks in Washington, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan issued a joint Declaration of Common Purpose in which they looked forward to a future of intimate collaboration between their countries in combating the ‘danger of Communist despotism’.
